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Went to the market today and Hager Arcade. Was just going to get a bottle of Jazz...but then I was really tempted to try something I've never heard of before. Steel Chardonnay. I like Chardonnay. This was different than other Chardonnays I've had. Less.....umm....diminutive? The flavor is larger. I can't think of any other way to describe it. Very green-apple aftertaste. After a bit of back and forth I got both.


Went out to Parck City, which was amazingly not busy. Went to Borders and decided to use some of my gift cardage. Got a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and I was going to get the Gilded Tarot...I've wanted it for months now. But another one caught my attention, and I anded up getting the Archeon instead. The artwork is amazing. i asked if I could unwrap it to see before I bought it, and I love it. I also got a couple of Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark bars.

For giggles, I flipped through New Witch magazine. I liked it when it first came out, but I'm not really a fan anymore. It says that it's a "pagan" magazine, but it's really Neo-Wicca-centric and I never find anyhitng that makes it worth buying. The letters to the editor were interesting, like the one in the current issue from a woman who reads Sage Woman...a magazine by the same publisher that I just can't stomach to even flip through most of the time. So she decided to write in and let them know that she read the magazine for the first time and -oh my- it was so strange to read a magazine that lets men and women write for them. I believe her exact word was "foreign". Yeah! I mean men are allowed to write for magazines now and everything! What's next?

I have enough left on my gift cards that, with the 30% off coupon they gave me for next week, I can get the book of Greek temples that I've wanted for a bit now. I'll get the dvd's another time I guess...

I'm going to have breakfast with Jon in the morning, and I'll be leaving to come back to Baltimore tomorrow afternoon. This has been a much less stressful Christmas than the ones I've had since I moved to Baltimore.

And for the record, I am SO not a fan of country music. (edit: but OMG, Gretchen Wilson...wearing glasses? Umm....wow. I'll just turn the volume down. Mom's not watching the TV anymore.)

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[cloth-of-five.livejournal.com]

I love Sage Woman, and I've read it for well over a decade now. It's a little fluffy, but it still feels like an old, familiar, and trusted companion. No, they don't let men write for them, but that zine and "Beltaine Papers" were written specifically for the feminist/Dianic Craft. Personally, I appreciate that, it's a safe space in a particular way. The same publisher also puts out PanGaia (which welcomes writers of either or both genders), and that *does* seem to be more of a general-interest Pagan zine. Its politics ook me, but PanGaia has had a few Recon-friendly articles in it.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

well, this person's tone and wording really seemed to me more like she was talking about all the magazines she's ever read in general than just one particular magazine, though Sage Woman was the one that she particularly mentioned.

Being so selective in one's reading to a point where it's "foreign" to one to read a magazine that allows men to write? Ya know...I just can't see anyhting good about that. Perhaps that's not what the person was actually saying, but that's how the wording came across, I reread the letter several times. And maybe it's none of my business what one person does or thinks (though, if they write a letter to a public magazine, it's out there for me to comment on as I will.) Gender exclusivity is gender exclusivity, and it's really no better if men keep the women out or women keep the men out.

yeah, this turned into another ramble.

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's odd, too. I figured she was saying it was foreign to read a zine with men in it *from that publisher*, but even that doesn't make sense-- if she were a regular reader, she'd know that this company publishes 4 zines, only one of which is just for women, and has done so for 10 years at least.

Gender exclusivity is generally fine with me on either side, presuming we're not talking about power brokers negotiating deals in the gender-exclusive club or something like that. Got to sit in on a men's group doing chants at FSG one year, and I found that very cool. Taught them some Dianic ones. :)